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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that looks naive--but it's certain nobody was thinking masterpiece. The films were often shot in a weekend with untested actors who had to get it right the first time; to producers, the only truly obscene phrase was "Take Two." The running times were as short as a starlet's skirt. A plot-heavy thriller might last 51 minutes (Maniac) or 63 (Herschell Gordon Lewis' gore-gantuan Blood Feast). Then again, the numbing incompetence of some adults-only films made that one hour seem endless. The tone of even the best of them was not so much sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SEX! VIOLENCE! TRASH! | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...said. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1917 as Robert Charles Duran Mitchum, he was one of Hollywood's earliest bad boys. He came from a deliciously checkered past of arrests, odd jobs, and wanderings, and in 1948, he was arrested for possession of marijuana at the home of a starlet. In interviews, Mitchum liked to blame his image on publicists, calling himself "the ugly leading man" who needed the myth to cover his "lack of glamour." After a best supporting actor nomination in 1945 for "The Story of G.I. Joe," Mitchum hit the A-list and worked constantly, starring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Mitchum, Dead at 79 | 7/1/1997 | See Source »

Before Sarah Ferguson captured Prince Andrew's heart and the tabloid headlines, there was American-born Koo Stark, a onetime soft-porn film starlet whose liaison with the prince sparked media madness in 1982. After Andrew returned from the Falklands war, the two were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...Florida, Sunburst U.S.A. International, gives away more than $1 million in prizes every year. At age six, Lisa Iverson is already "Miss American Beauty Queen of Hearts," "Children of the World Supreme Winner," "U.S.A. National Scholarship Little Miss," Hawaiian Tropic "Superstar Photogenic," Hawaiian Tropic "Hollywood Babe" and "Miss American Starlet Fashion Model." She has won enough money to pay for college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAYING AT PAGEANTS | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...buildings with serenity gardens, and the red ribbon symbolizing AIDS awareness appears on mugs, Christmas-tree ornaments and beach towels while remaining a fashion challenge for Oscar-night actresses in strapless gowns. Elizabeth Taylor and Sharon Stone impressively share the fund-raising crown; Sharon was barely a B-movie starlet when the epidemic began. AIDS awareness has become ubiquitous, and the possible new breakthrough in protease cocktails has somehow become a component of the AIDS industry--perhaps a miracle or maybe just another item on the boardroom agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW IT'S AIDS INC. | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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